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Harvard researchers believe that a cigar-shaped asteroid, known as Oumuamua, currently hurtling through outer space may be a probe sent by aliens to find signs of life elsewhere in the solar system. “One possibility is that Oumuamua is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as debris from advanced technological equipment,” researchers at Harvard’s Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics wrote. “A more exotic scenario is that Oumuamua may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization.” As The New York Post notes, “Before he died in March, Professor Stephen Hawking said: ‘Researchers working on long-distance space transportation have previously suggested that a cigar or needle shape is the most likely architecture for an interstellar spacecraft, since this would minimize friction and damage from interstellar gas and dust.’”

A mysterious cigar-shaped object spotted tumbling through our solar system last year may have been an alien spacecraft sent to investigate Earth, astronomers from Harvard University have suggested https://t.co/yjn5DO5qcopic.twitter.com/NFTXDxreFy